<div>Illegal is probably the wrong word, ideally I would say check the readme with any map (open up the .iwd file with zip), if an author says not to redistrubute without permission I would ask for it. Many may say in the readme they are ok as long as the readme that came with the original zip is included as well (so its obvious who the originator is). Try to keep any unique names to your paks to avoid possible conflicts with paks similarlarly named players may already have from elsewhere.
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<div>Not sure why people can't get a map pack to work with any mod, (although not sure which map pak, so might be something in that), we have custom paks working with mods fine, and only use fs_game when there's a speciifc mod to be used.
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<div>Another possible alternative for some would be to keep the same base or fs_game , but move paks in/out from a central place just as part of a dos or bash script (if you use a diff fs_game you need to restart server anyway). We've done that before when there's been some weird combos of mods and maps and people want to switch between them but keep the base gametype or mod so it matches the filter queries.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:gadruid@bellsouth.net">gadruid@bellsouth.net</a></b> <<a href="mailto:gadruid@bellsouth.net">gadruid@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">It is not illegal, however creating map packs at random can create problems for users. Be sure to use fs_game and it should, in theory, work. I have never got a map pack to work with any mod.
<br><br>John<br><br>><br>> From: "Quint van Drosthagen" <<a href="mailto:cod@se-easy.net">cod@se-easy.net</a>><br>> Date: 2006/05/16 Tue PM 01:51:39 EDT<br>> To: <<a href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">
cod@icculus.org</a>><br>> Subject: [cod] Combining maps and skins<br>><br>> All,<br>><br>> Got a question a little while ago I asked where to find good maps... And<br>> found them... At that point somebody mailed that it is illegal to combine
<br>> maps and skins. But the problem at this point is when I put more then 4 iwd<br>> files in the server the server crash... Is it really illegal to combine maps<br>> and skins so I can make 1 skin pack and 1 mappack???
<br>><br>> Regards<br>> Quint<br>><br>><br>><br><br></blockquote></div><br>